Thursday, June 19, 2008

And speaking of advancing the national cause, anonymous inside government sources expect this government to return in the fall with a proposal to lower the voting age. Indeed, the thinking goes, if 14-year-old boys were given the vote this bunch would surely be well on its way to the Republican dream of a permanent majority.

Absolutely, totally, true. As someone who was once a 14 year old boy, I can say categorically that teenage boys provide the core ideological framework of the modern Canadian Conservative Party (pick on the weak, mock and or beat up anyone who is thinks differently from the alpha male, chase after chicks with "big racks"). The Tories might as well extend the vote to teenage boys. They aren't having much luck expanding their vote anywhere else.